Re: Chaff in the Channel (Stealth PGP work)

[Ray Arachelian <sunder@amanda.dorsai.org>]

On Sat, 2 Mar 1996, Mike Fletcher wrote:

> 	Just a stab, but maybe this might work:  Get two picures of
> with both at minimum sufficient size to carry the message.  Use the
> lsb's (or any bit for that matter) of the second image to XOR with the
> message before stego'ing (L'eggo my S'tego :) into the first.  Of course
> you'ld have to arrange which bit in the pad image will be used, how to
> associate the images, etc. before hand.

This is horrible.  If you have to ship the original untouched picture to 
someone, the man in the middle attack will work, furthermore, the image 
you use is likely already out there and when you ship the modified 
version to XOR, the man in the middle will be able to get the two.

Basically your idea gets back to the original key distribution problem 
that PK schemes have solved... if you have to use a secure channel to 
send a passphrase along, why not use that same channel for the message as 
well?

There are other ways to do this and NOT have it detected.  See my 
WNS210.ZIP package. :^)  (Shameless, plug, but hey, better secure than 
sorry.)

Now if I can find a way to get WNStorm to be somehow mind-melded with PGP 
and produce a public key Stego system, that would be worth the trouble. :)

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